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Greatness Quotes by James C. Collins
- If we allow the celebrity rock-star model of leadership to triumph, we will see the decline of corporations and institutions of all types. The twentieth…
- We must reject the idea... Well-intentioned, but dead wrong... That the primary path to greatness in the social sectors is to become "more like a…
- ...the question, Why try for greatness? would seem almost tautological. If you're doing something you care that much about, and you believe in its purpose…
- Indeed, the real question is not, "Why greatness?" but "What work makes you feel compelled to try to create greatness?" if you have to ask…
- Focusing solely on what you can potentially do better than any other organization is the only path to greatness.
- The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconstancy. The signature of greatness is a disciplined and consistent focus on the right things.
- If we only have great companies, we will merely have a prosperous society, not a great one. Economic growth and power are the means, not…
- A culture of discipline is not a principle of business, it is a principle of greatness.
- Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.
More Greatness Quotes
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- For it is in giving that we receive. — Francis of Assisi
- Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. — Marcus Aurelius
- There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility. — Abu Bakr
- No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of… — Charles Kendall Adams
- Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities,… — Amelia Barr
- We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself. — Jean Baudrillard
- Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man… — Joseph Addison
- Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves… — Henry Ward Beecher
- He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. — Erma Bombeck
- The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity… — Napoleon Bonaparte